About Simon Carter and Onsight Photography

 

Simon Carter is a professional outdoors photographer recognised internationally for his distinctive rock climbing photography. Named by Men's Journal Magazine (USA) as one of the World's Best Adventure Photographers, Simon has worked professionally for 16 years and in the process has travelled widely and built up one of the best and largest collections of unique climbing imagery in the world.

See the gallery for samples of his work. Simon is also available for commissioned photography.

Simon became fascinated with photography as a teenager. He studied photography at high school and later at TAFE whilst also working at the
Australian National University producing images for scientific research.

As a teenager Simon also became hooked on rock climbing and now has
25 years experience under his belt.

He completed a Bachelor of Arts in Outdoor Education at La Trobe University
in 1990.

In 1994 Simon combined his passions for the outdoors, climbing and photography to begin his career as a professional freelance photographer and establishing his business, Onsight Photography. Since then Simon has worked hard photographing across Australia and around the world, in the process creating an extensive body of work in his distinctive style.

Simon was awarded the King Albert Medal of Merit in 2000 for "achievements in the mountian world" and was awarded the Rick White Memorial Medal in 2009 for "outstanding achievement and contribution to Australian climbing". He is the author of two popular coffee-table photography books: Rock Climbing in Australia and World Climbing: Images from the Edge.

Simon continues to climb regularly. He lives in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, with his wife Monique Forestier and thier baby Coco Rose.

Onsight Photography is the photo library and publishing business that distributes Simon Carter's photography.

Here you'll find information if you are sourcing images for publication or would like to obtain a custom photographic print. We also produce several popular publications.

 


Awards

The King Albert Medal of Merit
awarded by the King Albert
Memorial Foundation in 2000.

Society of Publishers in Asia award for Best Feature Photography in 2000.

Spinach Film Festival award for
Best Action Photography 2005.

World Climbing: Images from
the Edge awarded Best Book — Mountain Image at the Banff
Mountain Book Festival 2006.

The Rick White Memorial Medal
in 2009.


Elsewhere on the Web

Simon featured on Nikkor.com (2008)
Interview on Planet Mountain (2006)
Interview on Chockstone.org (2003)